Also performed by Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir with Carlos Santana, Tower of Power and others at the 'Blues For Salvador' show on January 23, 1988 at Oakland.

Goodnight Irene is nearly always credited to Leadbelly, or to Leadbelly and Lomax, on LPs and CDs. He though claimed to have been taught it by an uncle. It is thought to be a Tin Pan Alley song from the first decade of the century but may be earlier. In Songsters and Saints, Paul Oliver auggests that the song was written in 1886 by Gassie Davis, as Irene, Goodnight.